AVAS.. Poor Yorick! ♥️🎱

[tooSavvy]

Nice to see the 'fuze of rational debate' lit about here....

I'm sure the ATF cooler will continue to do as good a job as it might, in any event - age not playing a significant role in that.... Plakkie/leaky rads KILL trannies 😲.

Regards my personal fantasies, ref Wings 🤪

This place isn't PH...  Rivet counters should go there.

*Babelfish translator optional

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[tooSavvy]

.... apologies for 'rivet counter' snipe, not appropriate at all.

Rephrase 'just because you can, doesn't mean you should', there..

betterer

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[tooSavvy]

AVAS tailgate width = 42 1/2"

BMW trim = 42 1/2"

.... a start, anyway ✔️🔧

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[tooSavvy]

Well, hmm...... 

 

.... closer to what I'm after.

Some neat fit, straight outta the box 😎

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[tooSavvy]

These 'flat twin' wipers, standard on Astra... going by forum browsing 🙄...

They are $hit on AVAS >> stutter and drum (it was raining when we were out yesterday) and clear fairly well on upsweep/smear like chipfat on the downstroke 😵‍💫.

The 'great skip in the sky' beckoned.... However, I couldn't find 'plain blade' replacements locally... eBay doesn't help because if they don't fit then your in the 'return loop' 😕

B&M to the rescue 🚀

I had bought crappy RAC 'branded' blades there in the past.... They came with a Lego kit of adapters!!

As luck will have it, they seem to be Destocking their wipers = odd mixup of end-of-line with reduction stickers 👍

I got my 18" for £1:50, but 22" is still full price £8:00. £9:50 still seems a good deal ♥️

 

This type of packaging ...

Fitted them up = sweeps silently and no smears*

*we'll give it a couple of months 😶‍🌫️

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[tooSavvy]

Had to form a gentle curve.... hatch not flat 🙄

Well & truly gummied on now!!

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[tooSavvy]

I'm having trouble with my size!! 😯

I have my extending wheel brace, tool roll, inflator, spare bulbs &c.. In one of these >>

 

Ah haa, you say.... Gudd Gudd ✔️

Well... In Mr Getz & SuziQ the boots were so small it was a neat fit 👍

..... It is currently clattering back n forth in the estate rear 😕.

A bungy has been procured, lash down loops popped up & we now have a real tight rein on all the goodies.... I have stashed my Hi Viz weather jacket in the bungy too, all nice n tight now 😎

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[tooSavvy]

In case anyone is coy about asking... 😶‍🌫️

YES... My 'Caribbean scuba holiday' fund is wilting under the remorseless demands of fuel station operators...

Drinks like Olly Reed 💰🤪

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[tooSavvy]

Just dropped off the Trannie Cooler, job on for Wed.

The lad who is doing it agrees it's wise & we chatted about crimping the orphaned trannie alloy pipes [into the rad core] because, should the dreaded core fail in future, all my coolant won't trickle out redundant Trannie pipe ports.

He has done the job before... and on Citroens.

Just settling down for a hefty bill 😐

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[tooSavvy]

Oof!! Another 'mind how you go, marrer' passing event earlier 😯..

Cruised up behind a tractor/trailer, out in the boonies behind Lanchester, doing 35.

I scanned the horizon.. clear to go.. buried the pedal and just 'hit takeoff mode' >> in basically the rigs length I was doing 80 from 35 🚀

Sheer hooliginnizm

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[tooSavvy]

Just dropped off the car....

*Remembered to tell them the wheelnut locknut is in the rear wheel well, by the tyre ✔️

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[tooSavvy]

....... actually sitting in the client waiting area = my BussPass doesn't kick in till 9:30 🤣

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[tooSavvy]

Hmmm.... 🙄

My garage rang to say they can't finish AVAS today cos, as of 1 PM, the belt kits hadn't arrived 🤬.

To continue the drama... no laughing, there... they are doing OK on the Trannie Cooler >> have the front off + drilling holes for fabbing up tin bracketry ✔️.... 😵‍💫 .... however, the rubber hoses on Trannie &or tails on Cooler aren't enough to meet = some hose/connectors may need sourcing [£££ oh oh.. ] "Really?", says I .... "Try two lengths of copper pipe and snipp to length" .....

Tomorrow is another day #GWTW

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[tooSavvy]

Cars is back..... I'm going to get some copper pipe 🙄.

All belts + w/pump inc... coolant refreshed. 🔧✔️

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[tooSavvy]

As a 'side issue'.... 😎.... NOW the belts are refreshed I'm not so coy about using 'Launch Control' from lights, on urban clearways.

That Zexxer lurves revs 🚀🚀🚀

Here's me >> believes the brochure 😐

Nowhere does it say "SportzzWagen".. huh

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[tooSavvy]

AVAS did about 3000 miles between last MOTs...

Since 01Aug it's done 1200...

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[Lord Sterling]

You've bought an Astra?

[tooSavvy]

  On 18/08/2024 at 21:19, Lord Sterling said:

You've bought an Astra?

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SavvTowers, always a 'broad church' 🎱

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[tooSavvy]

Lip blade spoiler.... V2.0 😎

I have gutted the shiny blade, melting the glue + peeling off the inner membrane. This now allows the shiny outer to flex/flatten fully.

I'm going to nip the leading edge - after heating up with SWMBO hairdryer - and Gclamp twixt two flat planks.... Inducing a permanent 'flat' land 👍

I will of course be fitting & finessing before '3M Tape' day 🚀♥️

 

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[tooSavvy]

I have [... dusty in a cupboard, somewhere] a boxed Bleep..Bleep.. reversing kit.

Does anyone know if AVAS has 'old world' rear/reverse 12V bulb wiring... Or the CanBus mojo 😕.

I'm an 'old fogey' but parking by braille is not my preferred M.O. 👍

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[Jazoli]

  On 22/08/2024 at 09:18, tooSavvy said:

I have [... dusty in a cupboard, somewhere] a boxed Bleep..Bleep.. reversing kit.

Does anyone know if AVAS has 'old world' rear/reverse 12V bulb wiring... Or the CanBus mojo 😕.

I'm an 'old fogey' but parking by braille is not my preferred M.O. 👍

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It’ll work fine from the reversing light and grounded to the body.

[tooSavvy]

Nice run out, up by Kielder, for our lunch ...

Auto swish...mmmmm

 

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[tooSavvy]

Lip spoiler will be 'spoiling' my nice AVAS soon......

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[tooSavvy]

Run out to Carlisle [... in the Rain ☂️]

Along A69, past the [Ex] Sycamore Gap...

Hilarity ongoing, with 'I know best' CANBUS wipers/rear wipe 😵‍💫

More I drive = More I like ♥️

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[tooSavvy]

..... Home thru Penrith, down A66 off at Bowes, Bp Auk, past old Black & Decker factory and onto A1(M) to Teams....

Stretched AVAS legs a little, with all new belts now on 👍.... I understand the Z18XER is a 'Rev Monster' (not even pushed the [SPORTS] button!).

I've frightened myself with 🚀 gobs of *surely not, officer!* alarmingly illegal needle pointing >> and it's not wound up to 4k 😯.

Firmly in the 'walk quietly and carry a big stick' zone of competence 😎

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[tooSavvy]

Cabin Filter on for tomorrow ⚙️🔧 ... 👍

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[tooSavvy]

Cabin Filter *resched 😕

PAS sounds like a washing machine, yes TADTS.... However, it's marking it's territory in the street outside = ZF fluid to be bought & investigations to be made 🙄

I found out (reversing out at the pub, after Sunday's Lunch) one of the tail lights is out. I understand these Astra sense bulb voltages.. and will flag up a duffer 🤔. It seems the bulb out 'flag' pops up when you fire up/switch off but I haven't noticed it 😐..

New PAIR of tail lights going in tomorrow 👍

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[Matty]

 Bonny car Savv. Much underrated these.

[tooSavvy]

Halfrauds.... Here We Come!

 

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[tooSavvy]

⚙️🔧😵‍💫.....

..... Looking £££ 😲

*Mine is ZF

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